Text Structures
- Beyond Once Upon A Time: Reading Informational Texts in Elementary School (Nell Duke, Scholastic)
- Teaching Plot Structure with Picture Books
- Using Story Frames to Develop Reading Comprehension in the Classroom (download this ERIC articles from 1996)
- Narrative Story Frame: In this story, (characters and setting) are _. The problem is _. So first, . Then, . But, . The problem got solved when _. In the end, .
- Expository Text Frame: This article (book, piece) is all about _. I learned that . I already knew that _, but I didn't know that . I was very surprised to learn . Another fact I learned was __.